"Onitsha" meaning in English

See Onitsha in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Audio: En-Onitsha.ogg
Etymology: Borrowed from Igbo Ọ̀nị̀chà. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ig|Ọ̀nị̀chà}} Igbo Ọ̀nị̀chà Head templates: {{en-prop}} Onitsha
  1. A city in Anambra State, Nigeria, located on the eastern bank of the Niger river. Wikipedia link: Onitsha Categories (place): Cities in Anambra State, Nigeria, Cities in Nigeria, Places in Anambra State, Nigeria, Places in Nigeria Translations (city in Nigeria): Anaca (Hausa), Ọ̀nị̀chà (Igbo)
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ig",
        "3": "Ọ̀nị̀chà"
      },
      "expansion": "Igbo Ọ̀nị̀chà",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Igbo Ọ̀nị̀chà.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Onitsha",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "O‧nit‧sha"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hausa translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Igbo translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cities in Anambra State, Nigeria",
          "orig": "en:Cities in Anambra State, Nigeria",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cities in Nigeria",
          "orig": "en:Cities in Nigeria",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Anambra State, Nigeria",
          "orig": "en:Places in Anambra State, Nigeria",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Nigeria",
          "orig": "en:Places in Nigeria",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 288:",
          "text": "He tells them […] that they must leave before noon so that they’ll arrive in Onitsha by tomorrow morning.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A city in Anambra State, Nigeria, located on the eastern bank of the Niger river."
      ],
      "id": "en-Onitsha-en-name-Pk4TTrYg",
      "links": [
        [
          "Anambra",
          "Anambra#English"
        ],
        [
          "Nigeria",
          "Nigeria#English"
        ],
        [
          "Niger",
          "Niger"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ha",
          "lang": "Hausa",
          "sense": "city in Nigeria",
          "word": "Anaca"
        },
        {
          "code": "ig",
          "lang": "Igbo",
          "sense": "city in Nigeria",
          "word": "Ọ̀nị̀chà"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Onitsha"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-Onitsha.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/En-Onitsha.ogg/En-Onitsha.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/En-Onitsha.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Onitsha"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ig",
        "3": "Ọ̀nị̀chà"
      },
      "expansion": "Igbo Ọ̀nị̀chà",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Igbo Ọ̀nị̀chà.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Onitsha",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "O‧nit‧sha"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Igbo",
        "English terms derived from Igbo",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Hausa translations",
        "Terms with Igbo translations",
        "en:Cities in Anambra State, Nigeria",
        "en:Cities in Nigeria",
        "en:Places in Anambra State, Nigeria",
        "en:Places in Nigeria"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 288:",
          "text": "He tells them […] that they must leave before noon so that they’ll arrive in Onitsha by tomorrow morning.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A city in Anambra State, Nigeria, located on the eastern bank of the Niger river."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Anambra",
          "Anambra#English"
        ],
        [
          "Nigeria",
          "Nigeria#English"
        ],
        [
          "Niger",
          "Niger"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Onitsha"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-Onitsha.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6d/En-Onitsha.ogg/En-Onitsha.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/En-Onitsha.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ha",
      "lang": "Hausa",
      "sense": "city in Nigeria",
      "word": "Anaca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ig",
      "lang": "Igbo",
      "sense": "city in Nigeria",
      "word": "Ọ̀nị̀chà"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Onitsha"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Onitsha meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.